Strainer faucet for churns



Jun@ 22 1926..

A. FwULJ-SHMU STRAINER FAUGET FOR CHURNS .led March 5. 1923 M' attenua ldatentcd June 22, 1926.

UNITED STATES hittgi PA'IELNTd1 ALBERT C. HOUGLAND, OF ST. PAUL, MINNESOTA, ASSIGNOR TO CRANE COMPANY MINNESOTA, A CORPORATION OF MINNESOTA.

STRAINER FAUCET FOR CHURNS.

Application led March 5, 1923.

It is the object of this invention to effect a saving of butter and increase the efficiency of a churn by providing a combined strainer and faucet of novel and eticient construction, so that butter milk and wash water may be quickly and easily withdrawn from the churn while retaining therein valuable par ticles of butter fat which would otherwise go to waste.

A further object of this invention is to provide a faucet of this kind with unusually efficient means for preventing leakage.

Another object is t0 provide such a faucet with a strainer so arranged that it may be either quickly replaced by another strainer or removed for cleaning.

Referring to the accompanying drawings which illustrate the best form of my device at present known to me, Figure 1 is an elevation of my improved strainer faucet; Fig. 2 is a central vertical section of the same, together with the adjacent portions of a churn upon which the device is mounted and Fig. 3 is a section through the strainer and support taken on the line 3-3 of Fig. 2.

As illustrated, a plate 10, adapted to be counter sunk in the outer surface of a churn 11, is formed with an outlet aperture 12. Projecting inward from the plate 10, adjacent to the aperture 12, is a grid support 13 for a cylindrical strainer 14. This strainer 14- is removably held within the churn 11 by the support- 13. The outer face of the plate 10 is covered, as clearly shown in Fig. 2, by a gasket 15, preferably made of soft met-al such as lead.

An arm 1G is pivotally secured to the churn 11 by a bolt 17, the lower or movable end of said arm being slidable upon the gasket 15 and across the aperture 12 This lower end of the arm 16 is provided. with an outlet conduit 18, which is adapted to register with the aperture 12 when it is desired to withdraw liquid from the churn, and said arm is also formed with a flange 19 arranged to close the aperture 12. Threaded in the plate 10, above the conduit 18, is a stud bolt 2O which projects through an arcuate slot 21 in the flange 19. A coiled spring 22 is held under compression between the outer face of the arm 16 and a washer 23 by a nut 24 on the projecting end of the bolt 20. The abutting faces of. the gasket 15 and the vlian ge 19 are smooth plane surfaces so that the Serial No. 623,076.

spring 22 prevents leakage between said surfaces, but allows moven'ient of the arm 1G carrying the fiange 19 and conduit 18. T he arm 16 is strengthened by a central rib 25 extending downward from the bolt 17.

In use. the conduit 1S may be fitted with a hose to deliver the butter milk or water from the faucet to the eesired place of disposal. During the operations of diurning or working butter, the faucet is moved to closed position, viz, the dotted line position shown in Fig. 1, by moving the arm 16 so as te bring the flange 19 over the aperture Tn this position of the arm 1G, the bolt 20 is in contact with the left end of the slet 21, as shown in Fig. 1. To withdraw liquid from the churn, the arin 16 carrying the outlet conduit 18 is merely moved to the full line position, shown in Fig. 1, when said conduit will register ith the aperture 12.

Butter milk or water will now pass between i' the grid hars of the support 13, through the strainer 14 and out through the conduit 18. When, as frequently occurs, the s'rainer 141 becomes clogged, it may be easily removed by withdrawing it through the aperture 12 and conduit 18. The strainer may now be cleaned and replaced, or another strainer substituted therefor without substantial interruption of the churning.

AHaving described my invention what lY claim as new and desire to protect by Tietters Patent is: i

In a faucet for a cylindrical churn having an inset end and an outlet aperture in said end in close proximity to the inner periphery of the churn, an arm, a pivotal support for one end of said arm on the churn,y a conduit disposed. on the other end of register with said aperture.y a flan,i to said conduit adapted to close oud ture, said fiange being formed with an u ate slot located between said conduit an( pivotal support, a bolt secured te the churn and projecting through said slot in alignment with said aperture and with the pivetal support for said arn'i. and means on Vthe projecting end of said bolt adapted to maintain said flangein frictional engagement with the churn near said aperture.

In testimony whereof, I have hereunto signed my naine to this sirieciiication.

ALBERT C. HOUGIAND. 

